flooding in China

The 2010 China floods began in early May 2010.^[9][10] 392 people had died, and a further 232 people had been reported missing as of June 30, 2010,^[11][12] including 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou. 53 of the deaths occurred from the flooding and landslides between May 31 and June 3,^[13] and 266 deaths occurred between June 13 and June 29.^[14] 424 people were killed by the end of June,^[11] including 42 from the Guizhou landslide; 277 more were killed and 147 left missing in the first two weeks of July,^[15][16][17] bringing the death toll as of August 5 to 1,072.^[2][4] A landslide in early August in Gansu killed at least 1,471 people and left 294 missing. In total, the flooding and landslides killed at least 3,185 people in China by August 31.^[1] More than 230 million people^[1][18] in 28 provinces, municipalities and regions,^[6][2][11] especially the southern and central provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing Municipality, Gansu, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the northeastern province of Jilin have been affected, while at least 4.66 million people^[19] have been evacuated because of the risk of flooding and landslides in the latter half of June.^{[5][20][21][22][23]} By early August, over 12 million people had been evacuated,^[6][2] and that number rose to 15.2 million by August 31.^[1]

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